GeForce GTX 1080 Ti – Fastest Gaming GPU Ever

NVIDIA have officially unveiled the GTX 1080Ti GPU. This new beast of the graphics card features 11GB of GDDR5X memory, runs at 11Gbps, and performs 35% better than the GTX 1080.

The GTX 1080Ti and Founders Edition will be available starting on March 10 and start at $699

You can view some additional details from NVIDIA down below..

Massive Features for Massive Performance: The GTX 1080 Ti includes 3,584 NVIDIA® CUDA® cores and a massive 11GB frame buffer running at an unheard of 11Gbps. It delivers up to 35 percent faster performance than the GeForce GTX 1080 and up to 78 percent faster performance than the GTX 1070.(1) The GTX 1080 Ti is even faster than the NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal, its $1,200 big brother that was designed for deep learning and artificial intelligence.

Next-Gen Memory Architecture: GTX 1080 Ti is the world’s first GPU to feature Micron’s next-gen G5X memory. 11GB of G5X memory running a blazing 11Gbps quad data rate delivers the most effective memory bandwidth of any modern gaming GPU. And it still has plenty of headroom for overclocking.

Advanced FinFET Process: The GTX 1080 Ti is manufactured on the industry’s cutting-edge FinFET process. Its 12 billion transistors deliver a dramatic increase in performance and efficiency over previous-generation products.

Meticulous Craftsmanship: The GTX 1080 Ti runs as cool as it looks due to superior heat dissipation from a new high-airflow thermal solution with vapor chamber cooling, 2x the airflow area and a power architecture featuring a seven-phase power design with 14 high-efficiency dualFETs.

Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti price

This is where things get kinda surprising. Because it’s specced so closely to the Titan X it’s certainly not a cheap card, but at just $699 it’s a hell of a lot less expensive than we were expecting. And with the slower Titan X still retailing on GeForce.com for $1,200 you could kinda call it a bargain. Kinda. I mean it’s still $699 after all.

Nvidia have also taken a departure from their old Founders Edition shenanigans. The initial GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition card isn’t going to be demanding the extra price premium previous Founders Ed cards arrived with. These first cards with the Nvidia reference cooler are priced at the same MSRP the board partner cards will ship with when they follow soon after launch.

Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti specs

This is where it gets interesting and justifies that impressive pricing. The GTX 1080 Ti is almost just a rebranded Titan X. It’s using the same GP102 GPU with barely anything missing and only has one less gigabyte of video memory.

The GTX 1080 Ti has the same 3,584 CUDA core design, spread across 28 SMs. All that’s really missing from the Titan X’s core configuration are eight render output units – the 1080 Ti has 88 versus the Titan X’s 96. It’s also got the same number of texture units and the same 250W TDP.

600 WRecommended System Power (W)4One 6-pin, One 8-pinAnd even though it’s missing that single gigabyte of video memory Nvidia have dropped in Micron’s latest GDDR5X memory, with performance optimisations to allow it to run at a full 11Gbps, giving the GTX 1080 Ti a massive memory bandwidth of 484Gbps, which is ever so slightly faster than the Titan X.

In terms of the GPU clocks the GTX 1080 Ti is also setup to run faster than the GP102 in the Titan X. The base clock of the new card is 1,480MHz with a boost clock of 1,582MHz. Though because it’s a Pascal GPU it’s going to have some serious overclocking headroom too. Nvidia say that a 2GHz overclocked GPU isn’t going to be beyond the realms of possibility.

And that could also have something to do with the new power system that Nvidia have dropped into the GTX 1080 Ti. The new dualFET design allows for the card to run with more power, but also to run more efficiently than the old GTX 1080.

Nvidia have also updated the Founders Edition cooler too. The vapour chamber design now has twice the cooling area, which allows you to either run the card at the same temperature for a reduction in the dB levels, or conversely run it cooler with the same aural footprint as the GTX 1080’s reference cooler design.

Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti performance

We were originally expecting Nvidia to release the GTX 1080 Ti with a cut down version of the GP102 from the Titan X. That would have put it slightly behind the peak Pascal card in terms of raw performance. But with it utilising almost exactly the same core configuration and with a higher boost clock and faster memory, there’s every chance that it will leave the Titan X trailing in its gaming wake.

That missing one gigabyte of video memory is unlikely to make any difference at all, especially with the extra speed actually delivering more memory bandwidth than the Titan X.

It seems like a mighty overclocker too with it’s new cooler and power design. On stage at the recent GeForce GTX Gaming Celebration we saw the new GTX 1080 Ti running at over 2GHz but with the Founders Edition cooler running at just 66°C. That’s some impressively chilled gaming performance right there.

Which all means it’s also going to severely outperform the laggardly GTX 1080 too. Nvidia estimate that it ought to lead the GTX 1080 by around 35% which, they say, makes it the best ‘Ti’ card they’ve ever made.

Packed with extreme gaming horsepower, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti delivers up to 35 percent more performance than the GTX 1080 and comes with 11GB of next-generation GDDR5X memory, running at a staggering 11Gbps, for the ultimate in memory bandwidth and gaming prowess.

GTX 1080 Ti graphics cards, including the NVIDIA Founders Edition, will be available worldwide from NVIDIA GeForce partners beginning March 10, and starting at $699.

The Ultimate GeForce, with the Ultimate Specs

NVIDIA designed the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti to handle the graphical demands of 4K and 5K gaming, DX12, HDR and immersive VR. It incorporates:

Massive Features for Massive Performance: The GTX 1080 Ti includes 3,584 NVIDIA® CUDA® cores and a massive 11GB frame buffer running at an unheard of 11Gbps. It delivers up to 35 percent faster performance than the GeForce GTX 1080 and up to 78 percent faster performance than the GTX 1070.(1) The GTX 1080 Ti is even faster than the NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal, its $1,200 big brother that was designed for deep learning and artificial intelligence.

Next-Gen Memory Architecture: GTX 1080 Ti is the world’s first GPU to feature Micron’s next-gen G5X memory. 11GB of G5X memory running a blazing 11Gbps quad data rate delivers the most effective memory bandwidth of any modern gaming GPU. And it still has plenty of headroom for overclocking.

Advanced FinFET Process: The GTX 1080 Ti is manufactured on the industry’s cutting-edge FinFET process. Its 12 billion transistors deliver a dramatic increase in performance and efficiency over previous-generation products.

Meticulous Craftsmanship: The GTX 1080 Ti runs as cool as it looks due to superior heat dissipation from a new high-airflow thermal solution with vapor chamber cooling, 2x the airflow area and a power architecture featuring a seven-phase power design with 14 high-efficiency dualFETs.

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti-based graphics cards, including the NVIDIA Founders Edition, will be available worldwide — across 238 countries and territories — from the NVIDIA GeForce Partner Network, including ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac, starting March 10. Pre-orders on nvidia.com will go live on March 2 at 8 a.m. PT.

Massive GeForce GTX 1080 Giveaway

In conjunction with today’s announcement, NVIDIA is giving away 108 1080 Ti cards to its GeForce Experience community. To be eligible, gamers only need to download GeForce Experience 3.0 and opt-in to receive the latest rewards, news and more from GeForce and NVIDIA. Winners will be informed via email on March 7.

NVIDIA’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, NVIDIA is increasingly known as “the AI computing company.” More information at http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.

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